Stacey Chanelle Claire Solomon (born 4 October 1989) is an English singer and media personality. In 2009, she finished in third place on the sixth series of The X Factor, and gained a number one single on the UK Singles Chart when her fellow The X Factor finalists released a cover of "You Are Not Alone". Solomon won the tenth series of I'm a Celebrity...
Get Me Out of Here!. Her debut single, a cover of "Driving Home for Christmas", was released on 19 December 2011. Solomon then released her debut album Shy on 18 April 2015. In September 2016, she began appearing as a panellist on Loose Women and in November of the same year she presented the I'm a Celebrity spin-off series I'm a Celebrity: Extra Camp.
Halloween might be over - but it doesn't feel like it. I know this is supposed to be the M.E.N's easy slide into the weekend, but just to address the elephant in the room, the news is completely overwhelming.
The Israel-Hamas War, the shocking revelations coming out of the Covid-19 inquiry, even the stormy weather feels like a pathetic fallacy for the unrelenting terror that is always present at our fingertips, only a scroll away.
Working every day as the Manchester Evening News' health reporter, even while it's a job I hold so dearly, it puts me constantly in front of a website that is required - and absolutely needs - to be reflective of and report on the state of the things right now.
And, like anyone else who has news notifications arriving on their screens, I have felt horrified and powerless in equal measure many times. READ MORE: 'The Covid Inquiry has revealed the government delayed lockdown by 10 days - my mum might not have been one of the first to die' READ MORE: Manchester Christmas Markets 2023 locations, opening times, mugs and everything you need to know I unfortunately have no answers for you still, as an eternal optimist, one constant I know for sure (and a crucial reason I find meaning in my job) is that we need to know about these stories.
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